Rare Drama, Music, Western, Suspense, Mystery, Detective, Crime, Adventure and Canaries (1930s-1950s)
 Here are 50 more Random Rarities to soothe the soul please the ear. Rare drama, mystery, horror, detective, music and comedy are all here at your fingertips.
You'll meet Lora Lawton, a seven-year-run drama serial about Lora, a lady who moved from the Midwest to Washington, DC to keep house for a shipbuilder. Then there's Martin Kane, the determined pipe-smoking gumshoe who needed only a mere three weeks in radio before becoming a popular television show. Advertising for US Tobacco, Martin  often dropped by Happy McMann's Tobacco Shop in order to give the sponsor a plug. Or if you have a passion for terror, stay tuned for Max Haines, an extremely rare mystery show with only one existing program. But don't go yet, you must also Meet Miss Sherlock, the clever sleuthing lady who can't marry her sweetheart until she solves the mystery of Wilmer and the Widow.
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As for comedy, That's My Pop is tops as a rare comedic replacement for The Kate Smith Show during the summer of 1945. Bob Hope also stops by on The Maxwell House Showboat. And if music and dancing is your bag, you won't want to miss Sun Up Serenade, a 1940s Western music show promoting Blue Seal Flour in the spirit of Pat O'Daniel and Light Crust Doughboys. Or swing the night away with Tommy Dorsey and The Make Believe Ballroom. When you've left the ballroom, stop on by the Edens Shampoo College Sorority Dance from 1933 and move that shoe with Freddie Martin. There are several novelty music programs in this collection as well, such as the Hartz Radio  Canaries, a show with a studio filled with the chorus of twittering canaries along with a pop-tune-playing organ and the occasional dog. Or wake up with the Macy Morning Show, a happy-go-lucky morning music program from the mid-1930s, a "morning matinee created as a vehicle to promote children's clothing at the famous department store.
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Whatever your pleasure, you're sure to find it in these wonderfully diverse Random Rarities! So warm up the tubes and get that ear ready to hear some splendid old rare radio programs!
See also Random Rarities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 , 9, and 10.
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